in reply to Re: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming
in thread Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

This is at the beginning of a script that I must have written shortly after I learned about use strict. I didn't really understand lexical scope, I just wanted the errors to go away. Can we say "missing the point"?
I'm still in the bad habit of doing this. I blame C for the habit.

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Re^3: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 25, 2004 at 18:17 UTC
    It's funny that you mention C - whenever I had to deal with it, I would always create additional blocks inside a func just to limit variable scope. 
    int a()
{
  {
    int a, b;
    ...
  }

  /* move on */
  {
    int a, b, c;
  }
}

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    That did result in some excessive indentation though.
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